Kipau Surname
Approximately 365 people bear this surname
Kipau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 349 | 1:23,363 | 2,554 |
| Malaysia | 13 | 1:2,268,787 | 89,138 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
Kipau (127) may also be a first name.
Kipau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kipau Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kipau is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kipau? popularity and diffusion
It is the 777,192nd most common surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 19,965,879 people. It occurs mostly in Oceania, where 96 percent of Kipau live; 96 percent live in Oceania Islands and 96 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 825,494th most commonly occurring given name world-wide. It is borne by 127 people.
The surname is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 349 people, or 1 in 23,363. In Papua New Guinea Kipau is most frequent in: Bougainville, where 64 percent reside, New Ireland, where 12 percent reside and Northern, where 7 percent reside. Without taking into account Papua New Guinea this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Malaysia, where 4 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 0 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kipau
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